The United States also already has a major physician shortage, which is bad now and projected to worsen to pretty extreme levels as Boomers continue to age. Making H1-B visas dependent on a $100K bribe is going to cause thousands of medical students & residents to stop coming here every single year.

Trump’s delusional if he thinks this ends with Bubba from Oklahoma landing a tech job. Tech firms will just move operations overseas to reach top-tier talent. 📌 After Trump slapped a $100K fee on new visas, several passengers bailed minutes before takeoff, afraid they couldn’t get back into the US.

So ~*interesting*~ how different liability is for cops vs medical professionals!

They’re just saying it out loud

God is generally a reflection of oneself, and most conservatives think God is pretty dumb

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

Dear gestapo trash:

So far this year, more than 4.3 million COVID cases have been reported in the U.S., causing 301,585 hospitalizations and 18,717 deaths.

'Aren't heat pumps hopeless in the cold?' That's one of three myths busted in the excellent book 'Clearing the Air' @hannahritchie.bsky.social which tackles 50 questions. She clearly shows they perform well in cold weather, citing our Joule paper on heat pump performance during cold weather. 👇

dunno if 10 hours of livestreamed garment rending and teeth gnashing by the weirdest people on earth is gonna change the fact that they woke all their dragons day one. you're already literally invading america! oh is a second set of gloves coming off? have we seen the end of your famous restraint

Doesn’t everyone get $150K from daddy for their Congressional primary? projects.propublica.org/itemizer/fil...

The 2025 Democratic Party wants to accommodate Bull Connor

You cannot convince me anyone is actually having a good time on “Threads”

70 years later and the right wingers who still pretend drug use is a moral failing - and their right wing physicians - are just as likely as the people they hate to die from preventable complications of substance use. The only difference is now they choose to reject science AND lifesaving treatments

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Not for nothing, but McCarthy had been a relatively obscure senator, not the President of the United States with a compliant Congress and SCOTUS and McCarthyism STILL lasted four years and ruined many lives. Fevers break, sure, but sometimes only because the patient is dead.

Joe Biden was not in office when Trump was banned from Twitter for using it to incite real violence (people literally died)

Note: Stealth NYT edit. (Thanks to the eagle-eyed reader who saw that!)

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A disabled double amputee named Rodney Taylor has been held in ICE custody since January. He’s been denied his new prosthetic legs and is now in solitary confinement. His “crime”? A burglary when he was a teen for which he received a full pardon. 🧵

Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

“Of course, you realize this is all blatantly illegal” “Sure, sure, but they weren’t nice to our cult leader!” “Uh … touché.”

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

X has restored the account of Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys group. McInnes's account was banned by Twitter in August 2018 ahead of the "Unite the Right 2" rally in Washington DC for "violating" its policies on violent extremism.

For me there’s also the moral injury and the overwhelm induced clinical dissociation. Everything is like 50%+ more difficult than 6 months ago. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

im just so frustrated by how wrong everything is all the time

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Gotta say I’m not a big fan of 2 Jim Crow 2 Furious

"We DO NOT CARE"

I know everything is stupid, but a day later and I'm still impressed at the gleeful public willingness to scream out "WE DON'T CARE IF OUR SIDE IS CRIMINALLY CORRUPT!"

If you needed further proof this was a right-wing resentment grift, here's exhibit 57

That's not Christianity, that's white suprema- Oh, never mind, you had it right.

Using a racist who never served in the military as a recruiting campaign poster child is entirely on brand for this administration.

While we debate their direct health effects in humans, it’s clear microplastics are seriously messing up a lot of plants & animals our continued existence depends on. Sharks have existed longer than trees, and play a crucial role in maintaining the marine carbon cycle and the entire marine ecosystem

If your tent has room for Nazis and racists and transphobes then you’re actually in the Nazi tent, buddy

Christianity is so weird to me because what do you mean you are absolved of wanting someone to die just because you want the government to kill them

Really struggling to mentally recover from having an argument over email with a senior academic about whether Karen Attiah was the last remaining Black full staff opinion writer at Washington Post. I don’t get it, like why wouldn’t he just believe her? 😔

It's the constant undermining of Black women's credibility for me. The default is not to believe us when we say something.

Premise is there's numerous former Trump supporters (a) with a change of heart (b) who will change back if Dems don't flatter them. There are trivially few such people, if any. In reality, Dems need to win back nonvoters. They won't do that by trying to placate Trumpers, they'll just look weak.

“Maybe if we can just convince Trump voters…” I genuinely do not understand how very recent, very major, historical events keep getting completely memory holed out of existence for so many people but does anyone remember what happened when these people lost an election?

And those billionaires are often the people who selected the judges and paid them off while on the Court— Koch, Harlan Crow, Singer. It is an oligarchic conspiracy and it has been executed through the Supreme Court — using court corruption as its tool.

“we see it in the existence of early 21st century billionaires themselves. They act now like latter-day dukes or earls…” Or robber barons. The problem is indeed power concentration into the hands of billionaires. And the rogue SCOTUS did this. Exceptional analysis from @joshtpm.bsky.social:

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

this, too, is political violence

Our tax dollars at work, costing children's lives worldwide. Secretary Rubio, do you want this to be your legacy? My column: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

According to a State Department memo, the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development will cost taxpayers an extra $6.4 billion. That amount could save more than one million children's lives, and this administration is instead stealing our money to eliminate programs that save lives.

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

Grocery prices are up, quality is down, and shortages around the corner -- tariffs are one cause, but also the absence of immigrant farm labor